2023 Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Missouri
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Missouri ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Missouri to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Missouri
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Our 2023 rankings named Missouri State University - Springfield the best value school in Missouri for teaching students working on their basic certificate. Missouri State University - Springfield is a large public school located in Springfield, Missouri that handed out 5 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
Missouri State undergraduate students pay an average of $16,498 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Missouri State. During the 2019-2020 year, about 59% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
Missouri State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Missouri list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeast Missouri State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Missouri list. This medium-sized public school is located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and it awarded 5 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Southeast Missouri State University are $15,285 per year.
Online courses are available at Southeast Missouri State University, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 58% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Southeast Missouri State University is ranked #2 for overall quality in Missouri.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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